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Industrial Forest Policy in Western North Carolina

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  • 9 Ohio. HE Champion Fibre Company, located at Canton, is the largest single industry in Western North Carolina, and has the added distinction of being one of the largest wood-pulp and paper plants in the world. It was established in 1907 by Mr. Peter G. Thomson, of Cincinnati, Mr. Thomson selected Canton because it afforded a good combination of timber supply, abundant and intelligent labor, suitable water and accessibility to market. The plant was founded with a view to permanency, and due regard has always been had for conserving the factors necessary for its existence. The first essential for permanency is, of course, a continuous availability of the essential raw material, wood. A situation must be maintained so that not only total quantity requirements are met, but also relative quantities of the many various species required for the many different kinds of paper which are produced. The safeguard for the maintenance of such a situation lies in the ownership of a large area of timberland so managed for continuous production as to always afford sufficient reserve material to balance the requirements of the mill against the uncertain variableness of the relative quantities of each species of wood available on the open market. The Champion Fibre Company owns over one hundred thousand acres of forest, including every timber type existing in the Southern Appalachian region. The composition of that forest is such, and transportation facilities within it have been so developed, that it acts as a great reservoir to furnish deficiencies in the open market supply of each of the many species of woods required by the mill from month to month. The importance of keeping this reservoir in a continuously productive condition has brought about the exercise of forestry practice by the company. Such practice comprises the following major activities, in the order of their importance: Waste prevention campaign. Forest fire prevention. Scientific cutting. Educational campaign. Artificial planting of trees. It is obvious that the prevention of waste, both in the woods and in the mill, reduces the drain on the forest supply, and is therefore a major consideration in any program of conservation. The efforts of the company to accomplish this are directed toward reducing the heights of stumps to a minimum and cutting as far into the tops of trees as possible, toward maintaining the period of storage of wood so short that rotting will not set in, and toward securing the highest possible yield of pulp per cord of wood in mill manufacture. . The prevention of forest fires is a prime necessity for the success of forestry practice. /Unless it is accomplished, all endeavors for securing a perpetual supply of wood are for naught. Fires are often destructive and always very damaging to young forest trees or saplings; and it is to these that
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